Getting started with nginx on Centos 6

Before getting started with nginx, it is recommended that you update PHP to the latest version.

Create a /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo with the following content:

[nginx]
name=nginx repo
baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/centos/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

We are going to use php-fpm package to handle PHP fast-cgi.

# yum install nginx
# yum install php-fpm

Edit the /etc/nginx/conf.d/default file, and add the following:

location ~ \.php$ {
    include        fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}

Start the service.

# service php-fpm start
# service nginx start